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thecutepoliceI'm sure if you're an icon maker you're already heard about the community ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iconscraper, but if you haven't, or you don't post icons but do post pictures, allow me to explain:
Basically, the guy wrote a program that uses lj's live rss feed to go out and snag images that fit the parameters of an icon (100 x 100 and under 40k). Then the application steals massive quantites of icons which he posts in his community. He's saying that he "credits" because there is sort of a link back to the community or journal that he yoinked it from. Beyond the issue of credit, it hotlinks the icons from photobucket or wherever you have them hosted. Simple requests from icon makers to take down the hotlinked icons are met with unbelievably rude and derogatory replies from the members of the community, so Rhy went and figured out how to keep icons from showing up there in the first place.
If you don't want your icons or small pictures posted in lj entries to appear on the feed, this is what you do:
Go to the admin console
For your personal journal type in:
set latest_optout yes
For a community you maintain type:
set for comicontest latest_optout yes
(replacing comicontest with your own community name, of course)
Hit enter at the bottom.
What this does is change the journal's user settings so that icons will not be put into the rss feed, which means the program that iconscraper has written will not be able to pick them up. They will still be displayed everywhere else, as normal. Nothing else changes.
iconscraper, but if you haven't, or you don't post icons but do post pictures, allow me to explain:Basically, the guy wrote a program that uses lj's live rss feed to go out and snag images that fit the parameters of an icon (100 x 100 and under 40k). Then the application steals massive quantites of icons which he posts in his community. He's saying that he "credits" because there is sort of a link back to the community or journal that he yoinked it from. Beyond the issue of credit, it hotlinks the icons from photobucket or wherever you have them hosted. Simple requests from icon makers to take down the hotlinked icons are met with unbelievably rude and derogatory replies from the members of the community, so Rhy went and figured out how to keep icons from showing up there in the first place.
If you don't want your icons or small pictures posted in lj entries to appear on the feed, this is what you do:
Go to the admin console
For your personal journal type in:
set latest_optout yes
For a community you maintain type:
set for comicontest latest_optout yes
(replacing comicontest with your own community name, of course)
Hit enter at the bottom.
What this does is change the journal's user settings so that icons will not be put into the rss feed, which means the program that iconscraper has written will not be able to pick them up. They will still be displayed everywhere else, as normal. Nothing else changes.